Looking at Raimundo Nina Rodrigues’ book, The Fetishist Animism of the Bahian Blacks, it is interesting to see how the impacts that the labels from the casta paintings had on the classified’s images of themselves even. Being a mulatto himself, you can see, for lack of a better word, the sympathy he had toward other mulattos, in that while he saw them as backwards, they were still redeemable in society’s eye, while most others just saw them as lazy, racially degenerate criminals without any room for improvement (89). His views towards African-Americans, however, was not so forgiving, interestingly enough, even though they are classified as the “other half” of mulattos, therefore himself. I found it interesting how he specifically targeted certain African American populations based on their country in Latin America, giving some redeemable factors, for instance Brazilian blacks, while others were simply “othered” like they have been throughout history.